Euric's post below brings me to what I feel is a more important and curious point, my question above (in the subject line). Can anyone answer that, please? Thanks.
Marcus On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 20:28:00 Chimpsarecute wrote: >I think the concept of two parts for the day is Biblical. The Bible makes >some reference to dark and light parts of the day. > >The "dark" part of the day and the "light" part of the day were two parts of >the same 24 h day. The daylight part was measured in hours and the >nighttime part was measured in watches. By watches, I am referring to >sentry duty and not clocks worn on the arm. The light part of the day did >not begin at midnight, but at sunrise and the dark part of the day started >at sunset. Noon time held no special position, other then it being the 6-th >hour. At least at the time of Jesus' death. > >I'm not sure how much variation there is in the dark hours and the light >hours as the seasons come and go in the region of Israel/Palestine. Being >closer to the equator then most of us, the light and dark parts of the day >may be only +/- 1 h from solstice to solstice. In the spring time, the >light and dark parts are pretty close to 12 h each, give or take. > >The odd part is both the 24 h period and the 12 h daylight period are both >called "day", at least in English. I don't know if that was true in ancient >Hebrew. But I'm sure that adds to the confusion. > >Euric > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Michael Ossipov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, 2004-01-01 19:30 >Subject: [USMA:28081] Calendar, date and time > > >> Does someone if who introduced 12 h plague notation first? >> >> If the British Empire did, I don't wonder that such crap can be *only* >> British. >> >> bye >> >> > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
